i was headed to hawaii on a business trip, and hell yes, i tacked on a few extra days just to drink from a cocoanut. When i goggled, see turtle tattoo, 25 million search returns. Tortoise tattoo, ten million. And honestly, some of those tortoise returns look like tattoos af sea turtles. So get ready to hear about why cirtles are so cute and how far they'll swim to make babies. Getting flipper smacked, mind boggling migration patterns, nest building,. Some thoughts on finding nemo, doing field work on tiny islands and more.
Hope you dug tortoises because we’re back, shellin’ out the good stuff, with this week’s encore of sea turtles, so get ready to become wildly obsessed with them. Cheloniologist Dr. Camryn Allen met up with Alie on a tropical island (ok, in a hotel room on a tropical island) to chat about flipper slappings, turtle rodeos, nesting BBs, current surfing, endangered statuses, field work, sleeping under water, world records, boopable noses, male:female ratios, mind-boggling navigation, what you can do to help them, and the many mysteries that still remain. Take a deep dive into the world of seartles. Or is it surtles?
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This week's donation was made to Hawaii Marine Animal Response
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